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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 23d

A new book chronicles one Cherokee citizen’s odyssey of working to revitalizing the Cherokee language.

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AmyFou @amyfou.bsky.social · 25d

oh no oh no oh good oh no oh yum but ack!

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Andrew Garrett @andrewgarrett.bsky.social · Aug 20

Come be my colleague! UC Berkeley Linguistics has a tenure-track position in language revitalization.

aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022

Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Blair Braverman @blairbraverman.bsky.social · Aug 13

Flame and I are sooo excited to share a first peek at The Day Leap Soared, featuring breathtaking gouache paintings by @oliviawhen.com!!

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Dee Hunter @deethelinguist.bsky.social · Aug 6

I once again request that you please submit an abstract for the conference I'm planning. Pretty please?

Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · Aug 4

Confs: Arizona Linguistics Circle 18

We are pleased to invite talk proposals for Arizona Linguistics Circle 18 (ALC 18). ALC 18 is an annual graduate student-run conference held at the University of Arizona. Our goal is to foster a deeper appreciation for linguistics while providing a healthy environment for academic discussion, especially as it concerns graduate student research. However, we happily invite submissions from scholars at all points in their careers, including undergraduate. The theme of this year’s conference is L

dlvr.it

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Spooky Season Post Monger @dwaynefuhlhage.bsky.social · Jun 14

#NoKings

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AmyFou @amyfou.bsky.social · Jun 14

See you at #NoKings tomorrow #protest #Tucson #noNazis #abolishICE

three badly drawn protest signs: 'This machine kills fascism" with a picture of a heart, "No Nazis", and "Melt Ice" with a cartoon of a sad melting ice cube.

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · Jun 12

Also the cattiest dog ever.

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · Jun 10

Whale vocalizations not only resemble human vowels, but also behave like ones!

We previously discovered that sperm whales have analogues to human vowels.

In a new preprint, we analyze linguistic behavior of whale vowels.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jun 11

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.

They are in charge.

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not anymore said knife horse @inlovewithnight.bsky.social · Jun 10

This is cool.

Horses have a complex repertoire of facial expressions, just like primates

The study has created a catalogue of horse facial expressions to help people understand how to read these incredible animals.

theconversation.com

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · May 21

Good news, chat. The NSF is temporarily pausing the implementation of the new 15% ICR rate proposal pending a court hearing. I mean, it's good news insofar as good news is possible in this domain. It's less bad news, anyway. #linguistics #highereducation www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...

Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate

www.nsf.gov

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Brian Peterson @drbrianpet.bsky.social · May 4

Go to the link to see some of the current backyard birds in Sierra Vista, Arizona.
#bird #birds #birdphotography 🪶

Backyard Birdwatching in Southern Arizona: Cactus Wren and Friends

The cactus wren is the state bird of Arizona.

sierravistahomestead.com

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Sylvia Sierra @sociolinguista.bsky.social · May 3

I love this research: "‘But for calves we were sweeter’. Traditional Finnish cattle calling as trans-species pidgin" by Anni Jääskeläinen, 2025 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

‘But for calves we were sweeter’. Traditional Finnish cattle calling as trans-species pidgin

Examining archived recorded cattle calls, this article describes the traditional Finnish ways of cattle calling and suggests that these calls were a t…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Brian Peterson @drbrianpet.bsky.social · May 3

I am saying this is a desert spiny #lizard

I spotted it on the trail at Agua Caliente Regional Park
Could be a different spiny

#reptile #wildlife #wildlifephotography

Mostly brown and tan. But if you look close, you may see some turquoise.

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Kevin R. McClure @drkevinrmcclure.com · May 2

FYI “Spencer Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation and Kapor Foundation are providing quick turnaround grants of up to $25k for education scholars impacted by the abrupt NSF grant cancellations.” www.spencer.org/news/meeting...

Meeting the Moment Together

We are returning from the AERA Annual Meeting in Denver reinvigorated and with a deep appreciation for all that scholars and higher education leaders are holding in this moment. Rapid shifts in fed...

www.spencer.org

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Blair Braverman @blairbraverman.bsky.social · May 1

A little clip from a recent keynote I gave, featuring Refried 🎶

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Blair Braverman @blairbraverman.bsky.social · May 2

A clip of Refried’s song 🥹

Spooky Season Post Monger @dwaynefuhlhage.bsky.social · May 1

"Would we ever make it? My handlers were wondering the same thing. And then they heard..." (Refried at 7:46)
youtu.be/JA7EInpvCYM?...

What's it like to run a 100 mile dogsled race?

YouTube video by Blair Braverman

youtu.be

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AmyFou @amyfou.bsky.social · May 1

YES she's great!! I think she may have mentioned this ms, and the work looks really beautiful

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AmyFou @amyfou.bsky.social · May 1

it's so pretty and also wow tome-acious!

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AmyFou @amyfou.bsky.social · May 1

@heidiharley.bsky.social LOOOK what arrived at our house today!

#Linguistics #Hiaki #Yaqui #history #Mexico #scholarship

a book titled 'Au Te Waate: We Remember It. Hiaki survival through a bitter war'. By Maria Fernanda Leyva, edited by Heidi Harley.

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AmyFou @amyfou.bsky.social · Apr 30

Friends and colleagues - please enjoy this talk by Rolando Coto Solano about the goals and methods behind our 'Advancing Indigenous Language Technologies' initiative (ailt.arizona.edu)

#language #technology #languageRevitalization #languageDocumentation #NLP

www.youtube.com/live/owC7nO3...

thumbnail for youtube video: "Empowering community language workers with technology: with Rolando Coto Solano of Advancing Indigenous Language Technologies. April 28, 12pm. Sealaska Heritage. 2025 Spring Lecture Series."

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anthony k webster🐿 @ethnopoetics.bsky.social · Apr 27

Still one of the best transcripts I've ever seen, from Margaret Langdon's Animal Talk in Cocopa, we need more transcripts of cat's being given voice

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · Apr 25

Some good news for this Friday. This astonishing group of people have spun up ERICA, the ERIC archive. www.datarescueproject.org/erica-to-the...

#GLAMS #Skybrarians #AcademicSky

ERICA to the Rescue!

ERIC, the research repository of the Department of Education, was defunded this week. The ERIC catalog lists over 2 million education-related publications. More than 500,000 of these publications are ...

www.datarescueproject.org

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Apr 26

Jay is the lead author on a fascinating paper I was involved in, about how male mimicry by female hummingbirds provides the first example of a type of signaling system that we predicted from theoretical principles over a decade ago.

This is infuriating.

And I believe it's due to anti-trans bias.

Jay Jinsing Falk @jjinsing.bsky.social · Apr 26

My NSF PRFB on the genetics of female polymorphism in hummingbirds was terminated yesterday.

I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further.

If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.

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